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Meteor Near Miss
Posted: 01 Jan 2008, 08:22
by PanzerMeyer
Posted: 02 Jan 2008, 18:31
by Nemisis
Seen this Videos Years ago when i was in my teens (god damm how did i end up being 35) and several times since, very cool and were all lucky it bounced of our atmosphere rather than entering it.
Posted: 28 Jan 2008, 11:44
by Falker
I saw one like that at night but it was green. It was about the same altitude and moved a little bit quicker. As it continued towards the horizon it broke up into two pieces and rapidly flared out. Cool sighting. I wonder what tomorrows flybyasteroid will look like.
From Nasa:
The asteroid will reach an approximate apparent magnitude 10.3 on Jan. 29-30 before quickly becoming fainter as it moves farther from Earth. On that night, the asteroid will be observable in dark and clear skies through amateur telescopes with apertures of at least 7.6 centimeters (three inches). An object with a magnitude of 10.3 is about 50 times fainter than an object just visible to the naked eye in a clear, dark sky.
Nasa Web Site:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-014